Diane Thijm
 
 
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“I love collaborating with my team members to create experiences that will delight our customers.”

 
 
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I am a seasoned Product Designer with over 20+ years of experience in different industries including Human Resources, Finance, Telecommunications, and Restaurant Services. I’ve always loved everything design, in particular clean, simple and minimalist design that functions well. I am especially motivated by challenges and solving puzzles.

Throughout my career I have worked in Agile environments and worked on complex features from inception to deployment. I am a full stack designer that can conduct and analyze research, sketch, prototype and deliver beautiful high-def designs.

To help you understand my design strategy, check out this case study.

 

Projects

 
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Employee Dashboard

I worked on a dashboard that supported our GTM Strategy at Ultimate Software. I was the Lead for all things UX on this project. I collaborated with many different stakeholders from UX Leads, Business Analysts, to Product Managers and Engineers of all verticals within the company to ensure we had a unified global landing page and one seamless portal for our customers.

 
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Mobile App

I was a Mobile team member for over 2 years and collaborated daily with a cross-functional product development team. I assumed the Business Analyst role for 1 year, before we acquired one, and helped achieve a common goal to a major visual overhaul of the App. Part of my duties was to incorporate DLS mobile patterns into these deliverables. I joined the Product Manager in special presentations of our upcoming features to over 80 potential customers and contributed to get 2 million downloads. I was also a speaker at Ultimate Software’s Developer Conference (DevCon) supporting our mobile app. The Mobile Team was the winner of “Best Team 2017” at Ultimate Software.

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Recruiting

I was a team member of a cross-functional product development team and the lead UX designer for Ultimate Software’s Recruiting product. I worked closely with the Business Analysts to understand the business requirements and together with researchers, the engineers and customers, came up with a solution to each problem. I managed all aspects of user experience and had the opportunity to mentor a junior designer.

Design Process

 

My design process was one that I’d always fall back on should I try to solve complex problems.

 
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A delight is the word that best describes what it‘s like to work with Diane. What I find most impressive, is Diane’s ability to effortlessly take command of projects that require a deep strategic understanding of the business and product, and expertly deliver results...
— Bernard Bernard Rouzeau, Senior User Experience Designer
 

XPAYdite, Innovation Project

 

XPayDite is a 48 hrs innovation project that I’ve participated in for Ultimate’s Mobile App. It allowed employees to get paid the next day for the time they have worked, without having to wait on their next paycheck.

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“Best Overall Product” and “Best Value Add”

Winner 48 hours @ Ultimate Software

SEE DEMO

 
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